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Song title:      Where The Wild Roses Grow
Original Album:	 Murder Ballads (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)

Words and Music by Nick Cave
Copyright © 1995 Mute Records
Published by Universal Music Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 3. Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 6/8.



CHORUS:
Chords:
Em   022000    G  3x0003
Am   x02210    B  x24442


6/8

   | Em             | Am   Em      | G            | B
They call me the wild rose    but my name was Eliza Day

       | Em                  | Am  Em      | Em        D  | Em
Why they call me that I do not know,  for my name was Eliza Day



VERSE1:
Chords:
Em   022000    Am  x02210
G    3x0003    B   x24442


       | Em                        | G
From the first day I saw her, I knew she was the one

  | Am                  | B
She stared in my eyes and smiled


  | Em                        | G        | Am
Her lips were the colour of the roses that grew down the river,

  | B
All bloody and wild


      | Em                   | G
When he knocked on my door and entered the room

 | Am                  | B
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace

       | Em                 | G
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand,

 | Am                 | B              | %
He wiped the tears that ran down my face



[repeat CHORUS]



VERSE2:
Chords:
Em   022000    Am  x02210
G    3x0003    B   x24442


     | Em                        | G
On the second day, I brought her a flower

           | Am               | B
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen

| Em                         | G
I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow?"

| Am                     | B
  So sweet and scarlet and free


     | Em                      | G
On the second day he came with a single red rose

        | Am                       | B
He said, "Give me your loss and your sorrow"

| Em                | G
I nodded my head as I lay on the bed

   | Am                         | B            | %
If I show you the roses, will you follow alone?



[repeat CHORUS]



VERSE3:
Chords:
Em   022000    Am  x02210
G    3x0003    B   x24442


     | Em                        | G
On the third day he took me to the river

 | Am                        | B
He showed me the roses, and we kissed

      | Em                     | G
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word

 | Am                     | B
As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist


     | Em                           | G
On the last day, I took her where the wild roses grow

     | Am                      | B
As she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief,

    | Em                         | G
And I kissed her goodbye, said all beauty must die

    | Am                     | B                    | %
And I leant down and planted a rose 'tween her teeth



OUT-CHORUS:
Chords:
Em   022000    B  x24442
Am   x02210    D  xx0232
G    3x0003


   | Em             | Am  Em       | G              B
They call me the wild rose    but my name was Eliza Day

       | Em                  | Am  Em       | Em         D | Em
Why they call me that I do not know,   for my name was Eliza Day


 | Em        D  | Em
My name was Eliza Day,

     | Em        D  | Em
For my name was Eliza Day,